Michael Adkins isn’t shy about expressing his professional goals. The Helix High senior running back, captain of the U-T San Diego all-academic football team, longs to be a CEO one day.

“Money plays a big factor,” said Adkins. “I’ve always been a businessman since I was a young kid.”

On Saturday’s “U-T Prep Sports,” Adkins recalled when he was in elementary school, he brought pistachios to school and sold them for 10 cents each.

“I’d have these plastic bags filled with change,” said Adkins.

In middle school, he graduated to buying packs of Starburst for $1 at a vending machine, then reselling them for 25 cents each. Profit: $2.

So kids would actually pay 25 cents for one Starburst?

Said Adkins, “I guess they wanted them pretty bad.”

Swoosh thoughts

Rick Schloss, PR man extraordinaire, obviously had too much free time during the holidays. Thinking like a businessman, Schloss asked, “Why isn’t there Nike water?”

Then this: “You know when you go to a gym and they have all these energy bars, why doesn’t Nike sell energy bars? The cherry bar would have a red swoosh, the lime one a green swoosh, peanut butter a brown swoosh.”

And one

Schloss posed a final question, this one having nothing to do with Nike. “Why isn’t there a U-turn signal on cars?”

“The weird thing about Philip Rivers is you watch him run during the offseason conditioning (in shorts), he runs like a gazelle,” said Goff. “He runs great. He looks great.

“But there’s something, maybe his pads are super heavy. As soon he puts on those pads he gets stuck in mud when he tries to run.”

Westview rally

No secret that This Just In loves high school football. The Friday night lights, crisp weather, bands, cheerleaders, football at its last amateur level.

That said, a Friday night high school basketball game, in a small, stuffy, packed gymnasium, both teams pushing the ball up the floor, is special, too.

Like Westview boys basketball’s 69-67 overtime win against Mission Hills on Friday. Wolverines trailed 16-2, hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime, then hit another three with 10 seconds to play in OT to win the game.

The Wolverines celebrated in the visitors’ locker room like they’d won a section title. Special stuff.

Random thoughts

You people still driving around with antlers springing from your front car windows – it’s 2013. Clean up the front-yard Halloween decorations while you’re at it … U-T golf writer Tod Leonard gives “Promised Land,” three stars out of four. Said Leonard, “The best part about it - no guns, blood, death or singing.” … Leonard, by the way, gives “Les Miserables” two ears up.